"What I want is what other people take for granted: the chance to feel the night tighten around us like a noose. To ask, Did you set the alarm? To say: Remind me that we are running out of toothpaste. To have our time together not be so romantically charged but instead, just plain boring."
Jodi Picoult, the storyteller

I count December 2012 as one of the best month of last year, and thinking back about it still puts a smile on my face, every single time. That December was great, we did fun things like watch three Rockets games, go on dates, walk along sketchy parts of SF, went to the Grand Canyon, went skiing and I can go on forever. Don't get me wrong, I love spending romantic alone time with you and do fun things together. But for me the best part that month was the part where I get to practically live in with you, where I get to do mundane little things that many will take for granted. Spending that much time with you lets me see the parts of you that is so hidden from most people. It makes me notice the smallest little things: like how you get annoyed if the bathroom rug wasn't placed properly, or how you will fold your blanket with the same amount of precision every single time, or how my Santa bear is always sitting atop the mountain of pillows you have. And all these little things, they make me love you more, and every single day I wish I was back in the US, because I was so happy there.

I really can't wait for you to get back home so that I can tell you in person how much i'd missed you and how patiently I have waited just to feel the nearness of you.